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Charges include causing unnecessary suffering, failing to identify animals, failing to tell the Welsh Assembly about the death of an animal, failing to dispose of carcasses and relate to between February and September last year.

Tim Dillon, prosecuting, said during the first inspection an untagged sheep still alive but with its eye pecked out was put down by a vet. Other dead sheep in a similar condition were discovered and their carcases showed they were extremely thin.

A sheep at Ffrainc Farm, Rhydtalog, near Mold. Huw Aled Jones, 44, has been banned from owning any animal for six years. (Image: Flintshire County Council)

Grass was sparse with no additional feed available apart from two large bales which were mouldy and uneatable. Dead sheep were found in a feeder and had been there some time.

During that visit four dead calves and nine dead sheep were found and two sheep had to be put down.